Embodiment
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing branch optical fiber detection method, system and the optical splitter that the embodiment of the invention provides is described in detail.
The various technical schemes that the embodiment of the invention provides go for a little arriving the fiber optic network of multiple spot, as the passive optical network PON system.For ease of understanding, following examples are that example is described to be applied in the PON system, but, be to be understood that, the various technical schemes that the embodiment of the invention provides are not limited to be applied in the PON system, the person of ordinary skill in the field can know that the various technical schemes that the embodiment of the invention provides can also be applied to other fiber optic networks by the content of following embodiment.
The embodiment of the invention is for solving the problem that prior art exists, adopt preset rules to carry out plated film by optical splitter port in Optical Distribution Network and test signal is carried out bandpass filtering, thereby reduce the storage and the maintenance cost of optical splitter to be implemented in each optical splitter port.And, when carrying out the branch optical fiber detection, testing equipment (as optical time domain reflectometer OTDR) is according to the pairing plated film mode of branch optical fiber to be measured, the test waves eldest son who selects the optical splitter port corresponding with described branch optical fiber to be complementary in test spectral is with and sends wavelength and selected test waves eldest son is with corresponding test signal, make in the transmission course of test signal on the test link of branch optical fiber correspondence to be measured and a large amount of optical power attenuation can not take place, thereby the light utilization efficiency when improving the branch optical fiber detection improves measuring accuracy.
See also Fig. 1, the Organization Chart of the passive optical network PON system that it can be applied in for the embodiment of the invention.Described PON system 100 comprises local side communication equipment (such as optical line terminal OLT) 110, testing equipment (such as optical time domain reflectometer OTDR) 120, Optical Distribution Network ODN 130 and a plurality of user side communication equipment (such as optical network unit ONU) 140.Wherein, described local side communication equipment 110 is connected to described user side communication equipment 140 by described Optical Distribution Network 130 in the mode of putting multiple spot.And, by described Optical Distribution Network 130, at down direction, described local side communication equipment 110 can adopt the mode of Time Division Multiplexing and described a plurality of user side communication equipment 140 to communicate, and at up direction, described a plurality of user side communication equipments 140 can adopt the mode of time division multiple access (TDMA) and described local side communication equipment 110 to communicate.
Described Optical Distribution Network 130 can comprise trunk optical fiber 131, spectral module 132 and a plurality of branch optical fiber 133.Wherein said spectral module 132 comprises network-side port 134 and a plurality of user-side port 135.Described network-side port 134 is connected to described local side communication equipment 110 by described trunk optical fiber 131, and each user-side port 135 is connected to corresponding user side communication equipment 140 by a branch optical fiber 133 respectively.
Described testing equipment 120 can be coupled to described trunk optical fiber 131 by wavelength division multiplexer (WDM), and it can be used for sending test massage to described branch optical fiber 133 by described trunk optical fiber 131 and spectral module 132, and receives the reflected signal that described test signal is returned in described branch optical fiber 133 reflections.In specific embodiment, described testing equipment 120 adopts tunable lasers to carry out the transmission of test signal, and the test signal that is used to detect different branch optical fibers of its transmission has nothing in common with each other.Such as, the test spectral that described testing equipment 120 adopts can comprise that a plurality of test waves eldest sons are with, and the wavelength that it sends is used to detect the test signal of different branch optical fibers can lay respectively at wherein different test waves eldest sons and be with, and promptly different branch optical fibers correspond respectively to different test waves eldest sons and are with.And, described testing equipment 120 inside can be provided with the corresponding relation of described branch optical fiber and wavelength subband in advance, and when a certain branch optical fiber is detected can according to described corresponding relation select the test waves eldest son corresponding with described branch optical fiber with and send corresponding test signal.
In described Optical Distribution Network 130, described spectral module 132 can carry out shunt to the downlink optical signal (comprising the test signal that testing equipment 120 sends) from local side by optical splitter (Splitter) to be handled, and the uplink optical signal from user side is carried out convergence processing.On specific implementation, described Optical Distribution Network 130 can be realized one-level beam split, two-stage beam split or multistage beam split by one or more optical splitters.
Particularly, see also Fig. 2, divide the light time when described Optical Distribution Network 130 employing one-levels, described spectral module 132 can be an independent optical splitter, and each port of this optical splitter can be used as described user-side port 135.See also Fig. 3, divide the light time when described Optical Distribution Network 130 employing two-stages, described spectral module 132 can have a plurality of optical splitters, comprises a first order optical splitter and a plurality of second level optical splitter that is connected to described first order optical splitter.Each port of wherein said first order optical splitter is connected to corresponding second level optical splitter by optical fiber respectively, and each port of described second level optical splitter can be respectively as the user-side port 135 of described spectral module 132.See also Fig. 4, when the described 130 multistage minute light time of employing of Optical Distribution Network, the specific implementation of described spectral module 132 can be carried out corresponding expansion on above secondary beam split basis.
On the other hand, in embodiments of the present invention, the port of each optical splitter in the described spectral module 132 respectively by specific plated film mode to realize bandpass filtering, and the plated film mode of described optical splitter port can promptly make each user-side port 135 pairing passband be difference so that be different with the passband of each branch optical fiber 133 corresponding test links in the described spectral module 132.Such as, described optical splitter port can be coated with specific blooming respectively according to default regulation, and described blooming can be equivalent to the band pass filter of a simplification, is used to limit the test signal that the test link of each branch optical fiber 133 correspondences can pass through.Particularly, described blooming can be so that the user-side port 135 that provide and wavelength and test signal that branch optical fiber 133 to be measured is complementary can be connected by described branch optical fiber 133 to be measured fully by described testing equipment 120, and described test signal is reflected and the reflected signal that forms returns to described testing equipment 120 on described branch optical fiber 133 to be measured, and can be so that the test signal of other wavelength that sent by described testing equipment 120 can't promptly stop the not corresponding test signal of wavelength and branch optical fiber 133 to be measured by described user-side port 135 by described user-side port 135.
For ease of describing, suppose that described Optical Distribution Network 130 can realize that splitting ratio is 1: the light-splitting processing of N.
In a kind of specific embodiment, described Optical Distribution Network 130 adopts the one-level beam split, and N user-side port 135 of described spectral module (promptly independent optical splitter) 132 is coated with different bloomings respectively, and every kind of blooming corresponds respectively to different passbands.On specific implementation, such as, the test spectral that described testing equipment 120 adopts can be carried out the N five equilibrium to form N wavelength subband Δ B
1~Δ B
NThe blooming that each port plated of described optical splitter 132 can correspond respectively to one of them wavelength subband (as shown in Figure 5), thereby makes 135 corresponding test signals of branch optical fiber that allow wavelength to be connected with described port of each user-side port pass through.
In another kind of specific embodiment, described Optical Distribution Network 130 adopts the two-stage beam split, and N=m * n.Described spectral module 132 comprises that a splitting ratio is 1: the first order optical splitter of m and m splitting ratio are 1: the second level optical splitter of n.Wherein, the port of a described first order optical splitter and described m second level optical splitter can carry out coating film treatment respectively according to preset rules, so that correspond respectively to different passbands with the corresponding test link of described m * n branch optical fiber in the described spectral module 132, such as the passband that makes that described m * n user-side port 135 is corresponding different respectively.
On specific implementation, alternatively, the test spectral of described testing equipment 120 can be carried out the N five equilibrium and be with Δ B to form N test waves eldest son
1~Δ B
NAnd, the passband of m the blooming correspondence that port was coated with of described first order optical splitter is defined as m the first wavelength subband respectively, the passband of n the blooming correspondence that port was coated with of each second level optical splitter is defined as the individual second wavelength subband Δ C of n respectively
1~Δ C
nWherein, described m the first wavelength subband has nothing in common with each other, and the port plated film mode of described m second level optical splitter is consistent, and the individual second wavelength subband of described n can be test spectral is carried out the n five equilibrium and to form.And, each second wavelength subband Δ C
1~Δ C
nComprise that respectively m test waves eldest son is with.
Such as, suppose N=32 and m=4, n=8, then Δ C
1Can comprise Δ B
1~Δ B
4, Δ C
2Comprise Δ B
5~Δ B
8, by that analogy, as shown in Figure 6.And the n of each second level optical splitter blooming that port plated can correspond respectively to one of them second wavelength subband Δ C
1, Δ C
2... or Δ C
nAnd the pairing first wavelength subband of the blooming that each port plated of described first order optical splitter can comprise respectively that the test waves eldest son of n space is with, and the test waves eldest son of a wherein said n space with in each test waves eldest son with laying respectively at the second different wavelength subbands, in addition, the different and crossover not mutually of the pairing first wavelength subband of different port in described first optical splitter.Such as, under the situation of m=4, n=8, the blooming of first port of described first order optical splitter is with Δ B corresponding to eight test waves eldest sons
I1(wherein i1=1,5,9,13,17,21,25,29), the blooming of second port is with Δ B corresponding to eight test waves eldest sons
I2(i2=2,6,10,14,18,22,26,30), by that analogy, as shown in Figure 7.
Certainly, be to be understood that, the above only is to adopt two-stages to divide a kind of optional plated film mode that the light time can adopt at described Optical Distribution Network 130, the plated film mode that is adopted in practical application, can also adopt other plated film modes, as long as can just can so that described m * n user-side port 135 corresponds respectively to different passbands.
Further, when the described 130 multistage minute light time of employing of Optical Distribution Network, the concrete plated film mode that each optical splitter can adopt in the described spectral module 132 can be analogized with reference to such scheme.Based on above-mentioned PON system 100, the embodiment of the invention at first provides a kind of branch optical fiber detection method.See also Fig. 8, described method can comprise:
Step S1: according to the optical splitter port of branch optical fiber correspondence to be measured, described testing equipment 120 is selected to be with the corresponding test waves eldest son of plated film of described optical splitter port in test spectral, and transmission and the corresponding test signal of described wavelength subband.
Particularly, described testing equipment 120 inside can be provided with in advance branch optical fiber and test waves eldest son with corresponding relation, wherein, each the test waves eldest son in the described test spectral is with and corresponds respectively to a branch optical fiber 133.As mentioned above, in described Optical Distribution Network 130, realize bandpass filtering by the mode of carrying out plated film at the optical splitter port, and the concrete plated film mode of each branch optical fiber 133 pairing optical splitter port can be with respectively so that the passband of bandpass filtering is the test waves eldest son of described branch optical fiber 133 correspondences.Therefore, by described branch optical fiber and test waves eldest son with corresponding relation, described testing equipment 120 just can be known the plated film mode of the pairing optical splitter port of branch optical fiber to be measured, and selects the test waves eldest son who is complementary with described plated film to be with in test spectral.In described corresponding relation, alternatively, described branch optical fiber can be represented by the branch optical fiber sign.Further, described testing equipment 120 can generate and send with described test waves eldest son by its inner tunable laser and be with corresponding test signal, the spectrum width of wherein said test signal can be with for covering described test waves eldest son fully, also can for only for described test waves eldest son with a part, even can also for described test waves eldest son with in the single wavelength signal.
Perhaps, because each branch optical fiber 133 corresponds respectively to different optical splitter ports, therefore described branch optical fiber can be represented by the port numbers of its corresponding optical splitter port, accordingly, described branch optical fiber and test waves eldest son with corresponding relation just can realize by the corresponding relation of optical splitter port numbers and test waves wavelength subband.
When described Optical Distribution Network 130 adopts single-stage to divide the light time, each branch optical fiber 133 is connected to a wherein port of optical splitter, therefore each branch optical fiber 133 corresponds respectively to a port numbers, the port numbers of the port that is connected with described branch optical fiber 133 in the promptly described optical splitter.When described Optical Distribution Network 130 adopts two-stage to divide the light time, each branch optical fiber 133 corresponds respectively to two optical splitter port numbers, one of them be in the optical splitter of the second level with described branch optical fiber 133 corresponding port number, it is the port numbers of the port that is connected with described branch optical fiber 133 in the optical splitter of the described second level, another be in the first order optical splitter with described branch optical fiber 133 corresponding port number, the port numbers of the port that is connected with described second level optical splitter in the promptly described first order optical splitter.Similar ground, when the described 130 multistage minute light time of employing of Optical Distribution Network, each branch optical fiber 133 corresponds respectively to a plurality of optical splitter port numbers.
In the branch optical fiber detection method that present embodiment provides, if described branch optical fiber is represented by its corresponding optical splitter port numbers, then described testing equipment 120 can be selected test waves wavelength subband and generate corresponding test signal according to the optical splitter port numbers of branch optical fiber correspondence to be measured in test spectral.
Step S2: described Optical Distribution Network 130 carries out bandpass filtering to described test signal respectively by the blooming that the optical splitter port in its spectral module 132 inside is plated, described test signal be sent to described branch optical fiber to be measured 133 and stop described test signal to enter other branch optical fibers 133.
Particularly, in described Optical Distribution Network 130, described test signal enters described spectral module 132 by described trunk optical fiber 131, the optical splitter of described spectral module 132 inside carries out light-splitting processing to described test signal and sends to each port of described optical splitter, each port of described optical splitter carries out bandpass filtering to described test signal respectively by the blooming that it plated, so that described test signal by in the described optical splitter with the corresponding port of described branch optical fiber to be measured, and filtered out at other ports, and make be used to detect other branch optical fibers 133 test signal at described optical splitter port by filtering.
Alternatively, divide the light time when described Optical Distribution Network 130 employing two-stages, described step S2 can also comprise:
Described optical splitter will be sent into the next stage optical splitter that is connected with described port with the test signal that described branch optical fiber corresponding port to be measured is passed through, and described next stage optical splitter further carries out light-splitting processing to described test signal and sends to each port of described next stage optical splitter.Similar ground, each port of described next stage optical splitter further carries out bandpass filtering to described test signal respectively by the blooming that it was coated with, so that described test signal is by with described branch optical fiber corresponding port to be measured and send to described branch optical fiber to be measured, and filtered out at other ports of described next stage optical splitter.
Step S3, described branch optical fiber 133 to be measured reflects described test signal at its end, and reflected signal further returns described testing equipment 120 by described branch optical fiber 133 to be measured, spectral module 132 and trunk optical fiber 131.
Particularly, in described fiber optic network, one end of each branch optical fiber 133 proximal subscribers side can be provided with speculum, can be coupled to described branch optical fiber 133 ends by wavelength division multiplexer such as described speculum, perhaps, described speculum also can be arranged in the optical network unit 140 that is connected with described branch optical fiber 133.When test signal is sent to described speculum by described branch optical fiber 133, described test signal will be converted to reflected signal by described mirror reflects.Described reflected signal returns along original route, because the wavelength of described reflected signal is corresponding with described test signal, therefore its blooming that can directly be plated by the optical splitter port on the original route, and enter described testing equipment 120 via described trunk optical fiber 131.
Step S4, described testing equipment 120 receives described reflected signal, and its wavelength detected to obtain its pairing wavelength subband, further, described testing equipment 120 can set in advance the wavelength subband of portion and the corresponding relation of branch optical fiber within it by inquiry, know the pairing branch optical fiber 133 of described reflected signal, promptly described branch optical fiber to be measured, and obtain the characteristic of channel of branch optical fiber 133 to be measured by described reflected signal.
For understanding the scheme that the embodiment of the invention provides better, be that two-stage beam split and splitting ratio are that 1: 32 (first order beam split is 1: 4, and second level beam split is 1: 8) is illustrated for example below with the fiber optic network.
See also Fig. 9, it is the system configuration schematic diagram that 1: 32 fiber optic network carries out the branch optical fiber detection for the present embodiment employing to splitting ratio, be the clearer detection scheme of directly representing present embodiment, Fig. 9 does not express the communication equipment of local side and user side.As shown in Figure 9, described branch optical fiber detection system comprises: tester, splitting ratio are the second level optical splitter that 1: 4 first order optical splitter and four splitting ratios are 1: 8.Wherein, described tester comprises test light transmitting illuminant TLS (Tunable Laser Source, super wideband and tunable laser) and PD (Photo Detector, OPTICAL SENSORS).Wherein said TLS and PD are connected to an end of trunk optical fiber by the optical fiber connector.Described first order optical splitter is connected to the other end of described trunk optical fiber, and it comprises four ports.Described four second level optical splitters are connected respectively to a wherein port of described first order optical splitter, and each second level optical splitter comprises eight ports, be that described four second level optical splitters comprise 32 ports altogether, wherein each second level optical splitter port is connected to a branch optical fiber respectively.
In the present embodiment, the width U-Band of the adoptable test spectral of described tester is 1625nm-1675nm.
Described first order optical splitter and second level optical splitter are realized bandpass filtering by the mode of carrying out plated film at its optical splitter port, and wherein the blooming that plated of the blooming that plated of first order optical splitter port and second level optical splitter port cooperatively interacts, and the passband of the pairing test link of each branch optical fiber is had nothing in common with each other.Such as, in the present embodiment, the port of the port of described first order optical splitter and described four second level optical splitters can adopt broach to intersect the mode of plated film, is implemented in the described first order and the second level to have predefined bandpass filtering function with the pairing test link of each branch optical fiber.
Particularly, above-mentioned broach intersection plated film mode can be as follows:
Because the splitting ratio of described fiber optic network is 1: 32, therefore the width of described test spectral U-Band on average can be carried out 32 five equilibriums, be with Δ B thereby be divided into 32 test waves eldest sons
i(1≤i≤32), wherein each test waves eldest son is with Δ B
iBandwidth is (1675nm-1625nm)/32.
Four ports of described first order optical splitter are designated as port P respectively
11~P
14, in the present embodiment, port P
11The blooming that is plated can be with Δ B corresponding to the test waves eldest son
1, Δ B
5, Δ B
9, Δ B
13, Δ B
17, Δ B
21, Δ B
25With Δ B
29Set, port P
12The blooming that is plated can be with Δ B corresponding to the test waves eldest son
2, Δ B
6, Δ B
10, Δ B
14, Δ B
18, Δ B
22, Δ B
26With Δ B
30Set, port P
11The blooming that is plated can be with Δ B corresponding to the test waves eldest son
3, Δ B
7, Δ B
11, Δ B
15, Δ B
19, Δ B
23, Δ B
27With Δ B
31Set, port P
11The blooming that is plated can be with Δ B corresponding to the test waves eldest son
4, Δ B
8, Δ B
12, Δ B
16, Δ B
20, Δ B
24, Δ B
28With Δ B
32Set.If the passband of four blooming correspondences that port plated of described first order optical splitter is defined as four first wavelength subbands respectively, the different and crossover not mutually of the first then different wavelength subbands.
In described four second level optical splitters, eight ports of first second level optical splitter are designated as port P respectively
21~P
28, eight ports of second second level optical splitter are designated as P respectively
31~P
38, eight ports of the 3rd second level optical splitter are designated as P respectively
41~P
48, eight ports of the 4th second level optical splitter are designated as P respectively
51~P
58
In the present embodiment, port P
21, P
31, P
41And P
51The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
1~Δ B
4Set; Port P
22, P
32, P
42And P
52The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
5~Δ B
8Set; Port P
23, P
33, P
43And P
53The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
9~Δ B
12Set; Port P
24, P
34, P
44And P
54The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
13~Δ B
16Set; Port P
25, P
35, P
45And P
55The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
17~Δ B
20Set; Port P
26, P
36, P
46And P
56The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
21~Δ B
24Set; Port P
27, P
37, P
47And P
57The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
25~Δ B
28Set; Port P
28, P
38, P
48And P
58The blooming that is plated is identical, and it corresponds respectively to the test waves eldest son and is with Δ B
29~Δ B
32Set.
That is to say that for described four second level optical splitters, the plated film mode of its port is unified.If the passband of eight blooming correspondences that port plated of described second level optical splitter is defined as eight second wavelength subbands respectively, the also different also crossover not mutually of the second then different wavelength subbands.Described eight second wavelength subbands can be on average to carry out eight equal parts by the width with described test spectral U-Band to obtain.Thus, eight bloomings that port plated of each second level optical splitter correspond respectively to one of them second wavelength subband, and each second wavelength subband comprises that respectively four adjacent test waves eldest sons are with.
And, by top description as can be seen, the test waves eldest son that each first wavelength subband can correspond respectively to eight spaces is with, and each the first wavelength subband in the first wavelength subband of wherein said eight spaces lays respectively at the second different wavelength subbands.
The concrete course of work of branch optical fiber detection system shown in Figure 9 can be as follows:
At first, described tester is according to the plated film mode of the optical splitter port of branch optical fiber correspondence to be measured, select corresponding test waves eldest son to be with, and adjust the emission wavelength of its inner TLS, so that the passband of the band pass filter that the wavelength of the test signal that described TLS the launches optical splitter port corresponding with described branch optical fiber to be measured forms by plated film is complementary.Suppose first branch optical fiber detected that the wavelength of the test signal of described TLS emission is with Δ B corresponding to the test waves eldest son
1
Be sent to four ports of described first order optical splitter after the light-splitting processing of described test signal through described first order optical splitter, described first order optical splitter carries out filtering to the test signal that is sent to each port respectively by the blooming that each port plated respectively.A because ports having P in the described first order optical splitter
11Passband and described test waves eldest son be with Δ B
1Be complementary, therefore described test signal can only be passed through described port P
11Described first second level optical splitter is gone in the stepping of going forward side by side.
Similar ground is by described port P
11Be sent to eight ports of described first second level optical splitter after the light-splitting processing of the test signal of output through described first second level optical splitter, described second level optical splitter carries out filtering to the test signal that is sent to each port respectively by the blooming that each port plated respectively.A because ports having P in the described first order optical splitter
21Passband and described test waves eldest son be with Δ B
1Be complementary, therefore described test signal can only be passed through described port P
21First branch optical fiber is gone in the stepping of going forward side by side.The filter action of the blooming that is plated by the optical splitter port, described test signal is restricted to and can only be sent to described branch optical fiber to be measured.
Further, described branch optical fiber to be measured is launched described test signal at its end, and reflected signal further is back to described tester by original route, and is received by the PD of described tester.Then, described tester can carry out wavelength to its reflected signal that receives and detects and to be with Δ B with the test waves eldest son that wavelength was positioned at who obtains described reflected signal
1, know the pairing branch optical fiber of described reflected signal thus, promptly described branch optical fiber to be measured, further, described tester can get access to the characteristic of channel of branch optical fiber to be measured by described reflected signal.
Through the above description of the embodiments, one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that: realize that all or part of step in the foregoing description method is to instruct relevant hardware to finish by program, described program can be stored in the computer read/write memory medium, this program is when carrying out, comprise step as above-mentioned method embodiment, described storage medium, as: ROM/RAM, magnetic disc, CD etc.
The above; only be the specific embodiment of the present invention, but protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, anyly is familiar with those skilled in the art in the technical scope that the present invention discloses; can expect easily changing or replacing, all should be encompassed within protection scope of the present invention.Therefore, protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with the protection range of claim.